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Nine years on from the coup, we still need to stand up for Honduras
IT’S now nine years since the US backed the military coup in Honduras which deposed the progressive democratic government of president Manuel Zelaya.
The consequences for the Honduran people were deepening poverty and increasing violence and repression.
Despite multiple allegations of fraud in the presidential election last year, Donald Trump recognised National Party candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez, a conservative US ally, as the election winner.
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